Category: Reflections
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Or: How the pre‑1970 generation built a single ladder, pulled it up, and then blamed the young for not climbing it Last time, we argued that baseline liberalism – adults are adults, let them fail, let them love whom they choose – is the path of least resistance. But we left a question hanging: what…
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Why it outlasts the culture war, and why both woke left and nativist right are fighting the wrong fight You don’t need a new ideology. You need an old one, stripped of its performative excesses and returned to its quiet, boring, functional core: baseline liberalism. The idea that adults are adults – not representatives of…
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From Grain to Grift: How the Vice Industrial Complex Reinvents Itself And why social media is the last dance before self‑improvement takes the crown So you think you’re the first generation to be hooked on something? Cute. We’ve been at this for 9,000 years. Alcohol was humanity’s original vice. Villages in the Nile Valley were…
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Gen Z protesters from Nairobi to Jakarta are shaking governments and rewriting the rules of resistance. At first glance, it looks like pure generational rebellion—tech‑savvy youth fed up with corruption, unemployment, and a political class that has failed them. But dig deeper, and a more complex picture emerges. The same grievance‑for‑profit machinery that fuels Western…
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You’re a solar installer. Summer is a feast; winter is a famine. Your income looks like a roller coaster designed by a sadist. Financial literacy isn’t about budgeting – it’s about counter‑cyclical survival. Lesson 1: High tide is for paying down debt, not buying a truck.When the money flows, kill the credit card balance. Build…
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A young man with no constructive outlet will find a destructive one. That’s not a moral failing; it’s physics. The nativist movement understands this perfectly. It offers adrenaline, belonging, and a clear enemy. The liberal elite, meanwhile, offers… spreadsheets and sensitivity training. No wonder we’re losing. We need a new YMCA – not the old…
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We don’t need to tear down the old world; we need to build new neighbourhoods inside it. Enter the Special Economic Zone – not as a tax haven for billionaires, but as a laboratory for inclusive prosperity. An SEZ is a geographic area with its own legal and economic rules. Originally designed to attract foreign…
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Nativism is not eternal; it was invented. In the 1600s, colonial planters in the Caribbean invented “whiteness” to divide poor European servants from poor African slaves. Before that, you had caste, creed, and citizenship – but not race as we know it. The idea was exported: to India by the British, to Algeria by the…
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Remember when #MeToo was going to topple every abusive boss, every predatory producer, every sleazy politician? Then something strange happened. The revolution ate its own foot soldiers. Here’s the dirty secret the performative liberal left doesn’t want you to talk about: The movement was never supposed to target the powerless middle manager. But that’s exactly…
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The nativist impulse is not a monster; it’s a ghost. It feeds on economic anxiety, cultural vertigo, and the very real sense that the future has left some people behind. You can’t slay a ghost by yelling at it. You have to out‑bid it. Nativism offers a simple story: “Your job is gone because of…